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A Little Rock store owner shot a robber Thursday night after the assailant opened fire during a holdup.

Authorities later arrested and charged the suspect, who is identified in a police report as 21-year-old Alvin Aikens.

Aikens, who was shot in the left foot, was booked into the Pulaski County jail early Friday morning after being treated and released from UAMS Medical Center. He faces charges of aggravated robbery, theft of property and fleeing.

According to the report, the robber entered the Santa Maria Mexican grocery store at 4731 W. Base Line Road shortly before 8:30 p.m. and pressed a handgun to the back of owner Miguel Martinez.

The robber grabbed cash from the register and started to leave, but he turned back and fired shots toward Martinez when he saw the owner reaching for something, the report said.

Martinez, who was back in the store Friday morning, said he was reaching for a gun which he then used to shoot at the robber as the man fled the business. Martinez wasn't hurt and neither were his 20-year-old son and his 17-year-old daughter, who were both working in the business when the robbery and shootout happened.

Martinez said his daughter in particular was left shaken by the robbery. Speaking on the floor of the small store beside a cooler with a bullet hole in it, he said all he cared about was protecting his loved ones.

Gotta always go two to the chest one to the head. That's the only way to fight this particluar manifestation of an entitlement addiction. Hoorah for the store owner and thank God for the 2nd Amendment.

Sen Pryor is going to vote Democratic on the gun bill which will limit your rights and lead to government control and possible confiscation of your guns. Then people won't be able to defend themselves. Vote Pryor out.

It makes me sick how these thugs target Hispanics, thinking that they won't make a fuss for fear of deportation! Well guess what? Not all Hispanics fear deportation, because they are here legally! Regarding those who are undocumented, I think we should offer immediate citizenship for any illegal immigrant who shoots a thug in self defense!